Exam 2 key terms AMH2097 Republican party Passes 14th amendment Which guarantees everyone is born or naturalized in the U S will become a citizen benefits immigrants Civil rights act of 1866 ratified by states made black citizens and got rid of Johnson provisional governments impeached Johnson passes 15th amen 15th amendment Guarantees the rights of citizens the right to vote and can t be override by the states because of race religion and ethnicity Southern republican coalition As blacks start to vote the rise of southern republicans exists in the 60s 70s black citizens vote for republicans because this party is the most interested in protecting their rights party of emancipation carpet baggers nickname for northerners who come down to the south during reconstruction do gooders came down to help blacks others came to help rebuild and make money in the process Scalawags southerners who supported the union who may be sympathetic to blacks or didn t want the planter to control the south disliked southern democrats Presidential election of 1876 President election between Hayes and Tildenclose election Hayes is behind 18 votesdisputed election votes b w states both parties will let Hayes win and give him electoral votes if he Deal called compromise of 1876 both parties except that Hayes win if Hayes removes the troops from the south the troops support was essential for the survival of the republican state in the south b c of him southern WASPS are able to take over state legislation and the south is back to being controlled by democrats and southern plantation owners Send one immigrant to make money that then use that money to bring the rest of your family over Chinese heads to west coast to settle together in china town in San Fran Rutherford Hayes Chain migration Ethnic conclave China town In San Fran California little American culturestay is temporarydon t want to learn English or become apart of America cultural life Bachelor society Eldest male best candidate comes to the U S98 male and 2 female before 1880 Mining for goldChinese would come to profit off the gold rush gold mountain WASPs controlled the mining companyWASPs would strip search the Chinese incase they stole the gold Gam Saan Domestics Laundry shopstypically female based jobs that Chinese men would pursue They did not care if these jobs were for females they would go right into them Railroads Lighters Chinese would work as lighters to blow up there way through the Rocky mountain to help create the transcontinental railroad line Chinese knew how to light the fuse and were familiar with this very dangerous Yellow race Chinese seen has the yellow race yellowness represents sickness not being in good health they were seen as causing diseases such as leprosy small pox cholera yellow race is weak and feminine because of their female jobs and men hairstyles called queue long braid down back and long girl clothing Foreign miners Tax 1852 California Non citizens had to pay 3 6 to be able to work in the mining company This drove the Chinese out of mining industry Naturalization Act of 1870 National States free whites and people of AA decent are eligible for citizenship The Page Act 1875 national Prohibits prostitutes of coming to the U SWASPs believed any Chinese women entering the U S are coming to be a prostitute The Chinese exclusion Act 1882 national Prohibits the immigration of all Chinese laborers you an stay if your already here but if you leave you can t reenter first group of illegal immigrants were Chinese Gilded age Progressive era The progressives New vs old immigration old northern and western Europeans British sweds irish New eastern and southern Europe Poland Italy Asia and Africa 1870 1900industrial rev monopolieslittle to no regulation 1900 1920 politicians are responding to problems in the guided age Mostly WASPs middle or upper class they believe in The People white middle class regulation science and the experts of the day when there is a problem go talk to an expert Preserve the trees they oppose guided age monopolies urban political machines hate new immigrants Cog new immigrants Have their backs to the minority groups Protects the land but takes it away from the group that doesn t have any privileges or rights Political bosses Chicago NY Boston where bosses run machines and make decisions Political machine is made up of his voters people who voted him into power new immigrants eastern and southern Europe start to take over their machines Using science to put other groups downscientist looked to justify there racist beliefscome up with a conclusion first that they want to prove based on their own beliefs then manipulate studies and data to come up with the result their looking for Scientific Racism Germ theory Sound science poor applicationThrough Louis Pastuer and Robert Koch we learn that infectious diseases caused by the spread of micrograms germs Widespread belief that immigrants are inherently germy trachoma eye disease bacterial they thought it was spread through the air Venereal diseases STDs The venereal diseases STDS Splurge IQ tests Invented by Alfred Binet has nothing to do with race at first Invest to help French students who needed extra help in class flawed science terrible application don t use numbers only subjective terms like idiot used to exclude immigrants from coming to the U S Civil war early 1860sReconstruction 1865 1876Gilded age 1870 1900Progressive era 1900 1920WW1 1915 1919 First federal immigration station built hereAt Ellis Island immigrants were evaluated for disease and self sufficiency then given an IQ test in English Increase population of white people want them to produce more than other racial groups ERAS Ellis island Positive eugenics Negative eugenics Reduce the number of undesirable groups from reproducing Force sterilization person could no longer reproduce Doesn t kill victim Doctors who believed in this would target unfit women and sterilized them without knowing Buck v Bell Women sued after being sterilized without knowing 8 1 vote saying that was legal to do Olivia Wendell Holmes chief justice of supreme court at the time Three generations of imbeciles is enough legal until 1940s when America goes to war with Nazi Germany The extinction thesis White southerners compare health statistics for AA from two periods They find that the black population grew slightly faster between 40 60s than 70 80s the growth rate of the black pop in the late 1800s was far smaller
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